Can We Get Outta Here?
Currently we are hampered not just by the way things are being run, which removes effectiveness from the very people who are the mainstay of the society, but those people are also being crippled from childhood by an education system designed to ensure they never learn to think properly and always find authority more important than individuality. Those who break the mould normally find the people around them work to bring them back to the normal level – in my opinion because the example of someone not conforming raises uncomfortable subconscious thoughts about why one isn’t also throwing off the chains.
It can be hard to break the chains of normalcy, particularly when those in whom we confide put us down for trying, or when those we love or trust will not or cannot back us in our path. Sometimes I think the road is hard, not through any particular quality of the road, not because we have to walk it all alone as the Christ and all the real sages have said, but because those we know are standing by the side of it, mocking and throwing clods of dirt at us until we turn aside and return to the dullness of the daily grind.
There’re times I think it takes more courage to be able to tell those around you that you aren’t going to keep on with the role they have you slotted into, that you are finding a new pathway through life, than it does to actually start the new life itself. When we are ready to start our new life, when things have clarified enough to goad us into new directions, the steps can seem natural – finding the guts to tell a loved one you aren’t going to keep on with something they expect isn’t something we want to do to someone we love or care about.
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